Gay Rights: Update North Cyps

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS: UPDATE TO HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS LAWS IN NORTH CYPS.
• NORTHERN CYPS LIFTS BAN ON GAY SEX
• NORTHERN CYPS VOT TO LEGALISE GAY SEX
• NORTHERN CYPS BE LAST EUROPEAN TERRORY TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX
• BEG GAY AND LIVG NORTHERN CYPS

GAY RIGHTS: UPDATE TO HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS LAWS IN NORTH CYPS.

Gay Marriage⚭✖ Civil unnsCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyDonatg Blood✖ Banned (6-month ferral)Conversn Therapy✔ Banned. Current statSce May 21, 1998Legal Homosexualy legalised followg the European Court of Human Rights se of Modos v.

Current statSce May 1, 2004Legal LGBT people are allowed to serve openly unr new l brought to place when Cyps joed the European UnnIllegalIllegal due to the Mistry of Defence viewg homosexualy as mental donatns by MSMs Cyps?

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyps) face legal challeng not experienced by non-LGBT rints. [6] While the Republic of Cyps crimalised homosexualy 1998 orr to acce membership of the European Unn (EU) 2004, the north's disputed stat means li outsi the EU's jurisdictn. [6] In October 2011, MEP Mara Yannakoudakis claimed that durg a vis to Northern Cyps, Print Derviş Eroğlu promised her he would legalise homosexualy to brg le wh Turkey, the Republic of Cyps and the rt of Europe.

NORTHERN CYPS LIFTS BAN ON GAY SEX

[7] In December 2011, was announced that, due to mountg prsure om MEPs, Northern Cyprt lawmakers would repeal the law currently crimalisg homosexualy. I ask this bee looks like that the two biggt religns Cyps are Islam( north part) and Christiany ( south part) Lebanon(60-65% mlims and 35-40% christians) mlims and christians don't accept homosexualy and they believe that is somethg horrible(homosexualy still illegal Lebanon).

^ a b Shoffman, Marc (13 October 2006) Northern Cyps crimalis homosexualy Archived 4 January 2012 at the Wayback Mache, Pk News. ^ Geen, Jsi (20 October 2011) London MEP says North Cyps print promised to repeal anti-gay laws, Pk News.

^ Lter, Dan (12 April 2013) Northern Cyps to legalize gay sex Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Mache, Gay Star News. ^ Dasha Afanasieva, Northern Cyps be last European terrory to crimalize gay sex, Rters, 27 January 2014.

NORTHERN CYPS VOT TO LEGALISE GAY SEX

The news that this piece of homophobic legislatn had been fally overturned was weled by LGBT mpaigners all over the world. I always found odd that the Turkish Cyprts had this law place as, whether you are the htle and btle of the more populated ci or the ‘sleepy’ villag, I always found a reasonable gree of openns and tolerance to people who were known to be gay or bi-sexual.

NORTHERN CYPS BE LAST EUROPEAN TERRORY TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX

Ined I knew many men who, on the face of , were brimmg wh ttosterone terms of [tryg to] attract partners of the oppose sex and yet once some alhol had been nsumed they would disappear wh the known and ‘out’ gay the village for some sual sex. Forced or ‘aggrsively arranged’ marriag beme the norm for Turkish Cyprt homosexuals who pulated to fay prsure and married a heterosexual due to wir social tolerance. Derya Dog, a new, outspoken MP and long-standg mpaigner of LGBT rights North Cyps, was quoted at the time as sayg: “We crimalized homosexualy but we also changed that whole sectn (of the ) to mornize laws protectg human rights.

The Internatnal Gay & Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA) has recently reported that specialist holidays have creased by over 100% and I really thk that North Cyps n bee a qualy holiday spot for the LGBT muny; whether or not North Cyps ttons on to the ia and rpects the Pk Pound only time will tell. As someone who is om North Cyps, I would love to see the public wele the currently small gay scene there, helpg to grow.

The Cream Bar Kyrenia is the premier (and only) openly gay venue North Cyps and has been a favoure hnt of gays sce 2005.

BEG GAY AND LIVG NORTHERN CYPS

In Dereboyu Park, Lefkosa, there will regularly be gay men lookg to meet a another man and if you enter the Greek Cyprt south of the island via the Ledra Crossg, the municipaly park Nisia is, I am advised, even more well known for ‘cisg’. A relic of Brish Colonial tim, the outdated laws of homosexualy have been updated by the ernment of north Cyps. Seen as a huge step for Gay rights as this was the last European state to update s laws acrdg to the morn tim.

The outdated law was sectn 171 of the crimal , which actually punished up to 5 years imprisonment for homosexual relatns, has now been changed. TravellerUntegorizedgay holidays, Gay RelatnsHomosexual relatns are no longer a crimal offence North Cyps. Image source, AFPImage ptn, The ethnic Greek and Turkish muni rema divid CypsThe EU has weled the cisn of Turkish-ntrolled northern Cyps to crimalise homosexual relatns.

It is believed to be the last European terrory where gay sex between nsentg adults was still illegal - a relic of Brish lonial Republic of Cyps had long sce changed the law.

"As other [Brish] Commonwealth untri such as Nigeria and Uganda impose creasgly dranian measur to persecute LGBT people, I hope that people will learn om Cyps that the anti-gay legacy of Bra's lonial past should be scrapped and not strengthened, " she Turkish Cyprt parliament voted on Monday to scrap Sectn 171 of the crimal , which rri a punishment of five years for homosexual acts. On 11 July 2002, the Hoe approved more than 50 bills, cludg the ntroversial law raisg the age of nsent for heterosexuals to 17, to avoid havg to rce the age for homosexuals to 16 [R1. In July 2008, the Commissner of Admistratn Cyps warned that Mehdi Kazemi, 20 a gay Iranian man, faced ath his homeland if he was ported [R1.

On 06 April 2015, the Cabet reportedly approved a civil partnership bill that would allow gay upl to register their relatnships and grant them all marriage rights except jot adoptn. In the 1990s some tourists spected of homosexualy or beg fected wh HIV were been refed entry or quickly ported [R1.